Anyway, here are what I think are the new taboos in the sort of writing that gets people nominated for awards and written up in kewl mags but not read very much (not that actually being read by mundanes really matters, and their feeble minds would be too shocked by our ground-breaking scene of group sex with humans, robots, many-tentacles-beings, and hermaphrodites cloned from humanoid sheep, which climaxed with an orgasm-cannibalism scene)...

Thursday, 26 March 2009

I am the very model of a modern Media-Journalist,I‘ve information biased, bogus, banal and paternalist,I know the talking heads and every bureau puke and oraclefrom A-B-C to C-N-N in order categorical;I’m very well acquainted, too, with schedules for sabbatical,I live to write a sentence that’s both simple and grammatical,I’m good at leading questions, and my team puts out a lot o’ news,With many damning facts for which, at times, fact-checking’s not in use!...

Friday, 20 March 2009

I note with pleasure that you seem, in most respects, to have hit upon the proper balance between empty (though still plausible) protestations of your conservative bona fides, and the task of undermining anything in the way of genuine conservative principles...

Wednesday, 18 March 2009

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives estimates that 90% of the firearms confiscated in drug crimes in Mexico come from the United States, and some of the shipments can be enormous.

Which again illustrates graphically that the BATFE is a whirling vortex of suck at DOING THEIR JOB, doesn’t it? Instead of investigating “straw purchases” etc., they seem to spend an extraordinary amount of time screwing with manufacturers after changing the rules on them without warning, or pursuing typographical errors instead of, you know, known criminals because, I suspect, legitimate businessmen (unlike drug dealers) don't shoot at you when you screw with them. [links in original - o.g.]

Not to mention that (at least according to what we’re told) those firearms consist mostly of fully-automatic weapons (many from places like Korea and China), weapons which aren’t, you know, legal for general sale in the U.S., and which you sure don’t find at your average gun shop.

Anyway, read the rest, but keep in mind that Navarrette’s piece is just another case of our duplicitous government: Ignoring the real problem in order to use an imaginary problem as an excuse to push its agenda, aided and abetted by a complicit MSM.

Tuesday, 17 March 2009

I am a guitar player, and the “grail” of many acoustic guitarists is the pre-war Martin D45. Some of these guitars have sold for upwards of $500,000.00. Now, let’s say that I have one of these guitars, in excellent condition, and want to use it to plan for my retirement. How can I treat it as a financial asset?

Well, let’s say that my friend Bob has been pestering me for years to buy it. I don’t want to sell yet, but neither do I want to miss out on a potential sale should I want to sell. So Bob and I draft an agreement...

Saturday, 14 March 2009

And you can stay off my lawn, too

Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!

Just between you, me, and the old, the late middle-aged, and the early middle-aged: Isn’t it terrific to be able to stick it to the young? I mean, imagine how bad all this economic-type stuff would be if our kids and grandkids hadn’t offered to pick up the tab.

Well, okay, they didn’t exactly “offer” but they did stand around behind Barack Obama at all those campaign rallies helping him look dynamic and telegenic and earnestly chanting hopey-hopey-changey-changey. And “Yes, we can!” ...Because, as politicians like to say, it’s about “the future of all our children.” And the future of all our children is that they’ll be paying off the past of all their grandparents. - Mark Steyn